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Odds with previously held positions by the president, including reversals on nato, the ex-im bank, even janet yelling, a role that once dubbed by "time" magazine the great manipulator. bannon has been at odds with mr. trumps son-in-law and fellow advisor jared kushner, who often sides with his wife, ivanka trump, on major policy matters. a political "game of thrones" that many conservatives fear will pull the president to the left on climate change, abortion, and policing, for example. an affron...

>> bakari, does that make sense to you? >> no, i dont think it makes sense to me. i think its an affront to dr. kings legacy. but what this is future emblematic is. donald trump has ushered in a culture of high intellectualism and ignorance. i think the comparison jeffery made is intellectually disingenuous at best. what weve seen him do is pervert one of the greatest piece of literature the letter from the birmingham jail. the fact is donald trump is trying to bring democrats to the table to gu...

Jefferys clip this morning, i was more than disappointed. but i realized this is indicative of where our political discourse has come. you hear it from the presidents mouth. you hear it from sean spicer. you hear people even including jeffrey lord rewriting history. and this is so, so fundamentally unjust. this is intellectually dishonest. this is an epidemic of anti-intellectualism. and even more importantly from somebody like jeffery, they need to know its disrespectful. people died so i could...

Syria and afghanistan, this man who was a pacifist, is beyond the pale, and i hope you have empathy. >> what he was fighting against was a democratic party that was created as a culture of race from supporting slavery and segregation, those were democrats he was fighting against, bakari, those were democrats. >> i want to give you the final thought. >> for me, anderson, when i saw jeffreys clip this morning i was more than disappointed. this is indicative of where our political climate has gone,...

Odds with previously held positions by the president, including reversals on nato, the ex-im bank, even janet yelling, a role that once dubbed by "time" magazine the great manipulator. bannon has been at odds with mr. trumps son-in-law and fellow advisor jared kushner, who often sides with his wife, ivanka trump, on major policy matters. a political "game of thrones" that many conservatives fear will pull the president to the left on climate change, abortion, and policing, for example. an affron...

Defying a sitting president in barack obamas nomination, stalling it for a year, not even giving him a hearing, and now changing the rules to put in who they want. i think thats the real issue here, and clearly an affront to a lot of people in this country, including me. >> well, they blame harry reid in 2013 for changing the rules for everybody but the supreme court. its unclear whether or not this is basically going to really change the senate in a more serious way if they decide to then take ...

As a candidate he said america first, he was skeptical of foreign engagements except when it came to isis. we were going to knock isis back and take them out. the chemical attack in syria is a horrific thing, but it wasnt perpetrated by isis, and the missile strike was aimed at ther january regime, so it falls outside of what he laid out. the people who voted for him and supported him for an america first policy are angry at this, but the mainstream washington republican establishment are now lo...

Coherent policy? will this bring a settlement here or a one-off revenge for a particular attack or affront? >> chris, as you heard with the russian representative of the u.n. they are considering this an act of aggression. from the perception of holland and other eu leaders, does this enhance perceptions? maybe some negative, prior to the election and inauguration of president trump, but does it enhance his standing on the world stage? >> reporter: well, i think it does. at least for the moment....

An affront to who we are as americans. and i think they have to say what is their alternative? if they dont want to have strikes against the assad regime, then what do they suggest as an alternative because doing what weve been doing for the past six years -- or the past five years, really since 2012, that cannot be our answer to this predicament. it has failed time and time again. and the question is whether are we as a country going to say, there has to be a strategy on syria because are we go...

In 2013. after we threatened force, president obama met with president putin in st. petersburg in september 2013 and we cut a deal. we cut a deal to get rid of all the chemical weapons in syria. or so we thought. so the fact that mr. assad still has chemical weapons is not just an affront to the international community and the united states, its also an affront to putin because putin back then was the hero for getting rid of these. so i dont want to predict the way theyre going to react, but we ...